Whenever someone only offers me one alternative, I get suspicious. Street gangs as they currently exist in the US were created by the prison system, an arm of

Whenever someone only offers me one alternative, I get suspicious. Street gangs as they currently exist in the US were created by the prison system, an arm of the state violence apparatus. Conveniently, they're also an excuse to increase police budgets. More policing, in turn, puts more people into prison. I don't think that alternative is actually even an alternative.